{"id":625,"date":"2008-01-03T14:58:04","date_gmt":"2008-01-03T20:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/625"},"modified":"2008-01-03T14:58:05","modified_gmt":"2008-01-03T20:58:05","slug":"sock-wars-not-sock-trek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/625","title":{"rendered":"SOCK WARS (not Sock Trek)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doreen (an esteemed co-worker,   as opposed to Rob,   a steamed co-worker) introduced me to an article in the <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB119766934184930123.html?mod=hpp_us_pageone\">Wall Street Journal<\/a> that applies knitting to the non-dead-making game <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Assassin_(game)\">Assasin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, you sign up for it, you receive your target (with their relevant information like shoe size and address), then you knit as fast as humanly possible to finish a pair of socks for them and mail them to them before you get a pair in the mail. &#8216;Cause then you&#8217;re dead.<\/p>\n<p>This flies in the face of my recent <a href=\"http:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/621\">self-call-out<\/a> to start less projects, although I really enjoyed doing the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.yarnharlot.ca\/blog\/olympics2006.html\"> Knitting Olympics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll remind you:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/37\/104204245_9997d565d4_m.jpg\" alt=\"knitting olympics\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doreen (an esteemed co-worker, as opposed to Rob, a steamed co-worker) introduced me to an article in the Wall Street Journal that applies knitting to the non-dead-making game Assasin. Basically, you sign up for it, you receive your target (with their relevant information like shoe size and address), then you knit as fast as humanly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knit-or-get-off-the-pot","category-neat-o-sites"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}